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on turning- up the lips I found hnndreds of prominent, small, 
hard, round, white or yellowish nodules, some of which were 
already suppurating and ulcerating. The upper and lower 
lips were equally affected, as were also the tongue, frcencum 
buccal mucous membrane and velum pendulum palati. The 
nasal mucous membrane was also studded with hundreds 
of similar nodules, equally prominent and circular in outline, 
but smaller and entirely isolated, and there was a thin green¬ 
ish mucous discharge from both nostrils. Deglutition was 
impaired, some fluid returning by the nasal cavities. 
The dealer said, “ I am giving the colt the blood medicine 
you recommended, and also the oil of tar to relieve the 
cough.” I diagnosed the disease as “contagious stomatitis,’’ 
and considered that it was running its specific course unmo¬ 
lested. I advised isolation, but he said, “ those other horses 
are only dinkies, Doc—I don’t care about them, but want to 
get my trotter back to his training,” 
The disease ran a definite course in about eighteen days, 
ending in complete recovery, but inside of another eighteen 
days every other animal in the barn (4) had become similarly 
affected. 
I would not have thought of writing up these cases for the 
Review, but the same week two more “boarders” were 
brought from a neighboring livery stable, and the moment I 
saw the first one at my door, I recognized the cutaneous 
eruptions, and upon turning up the animal’s lips found a most 
sickening sight. It was the same disease in a more intense 
form. The nodules, ulcers and depressed cicatrices (pox) 
were present in greater numbers and in all their stages, and 
were more confluent, leaving large raw patches in the inter¬ 
dental spaces of both sides and in other parts of the mouth. 
The cheeks and tongue were equally affected, and the velum 
pendulum palati was also a distressing sight. Salivation, of 
course, was profuse, the cough annoying, and the animal could 
scarcely manage even to masticate and swallow grass. The 
owner had not been aware of the condition of the mouth be¬ 
fore this, but said that the pea-like nodules in the skin pre¬ 
ceded the salivation, nasal discharge, enlargement of the sub- 
